The photographer Michio Hoshino moved to Alaska in 1978, and over the course of nearly 20 years conducted and documented numerous Arctic expeditions. In addition to photographs, his accounts include many...More »

Presenting the work of five women photographers: Yurie Nagashima, Rinko Kawauchi, Rika Noguchi, Shizuka Yokomizo, and Terri Weifenbach. Standing before these photographs carving out single moments in time...More »

Sawada Kyoichi was born in the northern Japanese city of Aomori in 1936. He worked at the US military base in Misawa before heading to Indochina in 1965, when the war was ablaze. During the years when...More »

Izu Photo Museum is honored to host the first solo exhibition at any art museum, anywhere in the world, of work by American photographer Terri Weifenbach (b. 1957).
Weifenbach embarked on her photography...More »

Following more than a decade of biological research, the Hamburg-based photographer has produced a body of black-and-white photographs focusing on a variety of living things (such as animals, plants, insects,...More »

Commissioned on the occasion of this exhibition, Tan has created “Ascent” through a montage of over 4000 found still images of Mt. Fuji from all eras. Images were contributed by the public and were also...More »

Documentary artist Motohashi Seiichi (1940–) has used the two modes of photography and film to document the lives of ordinary people since the 1960s. His work has received acclaim both on a national and...More »

Marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Izu Photo Museum will host a special exhibition that focuses on photojournalism during the war and early postwar. Japanese photojournalism began...More »

Mt. Fuji, with its beautifully symmetrical ridge lines, has been an enthralling subject since the invention of the photographic process. This exhibition seeks after the genealogy of images of Fuji through...More »

This exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of Ichiro Kojima’s death. Born and raised in the northern city of Aomori, Kojima was the eldest son in a family that ran a toy and photography supply store. He...More »

Masuyama was born and raised in the village of Tokuyama, in Gifu Prefecture. After losing her husband during the war, she farmed in the village while running a minshuku (guest-house). In 1957, a plan emerged...More »

Photography made it possible to take another look at events that have already happened. This unique characteristic is so self-evident that viewers are rarely conscious of it, but it plays a key role for...More »

Manabu Miyazaki is a photographer who, since the early 1970s, has devised robotic cameras equipped with infrared sensors to photograph wild animals, lifting the veil of the forest that has concealed them....More »

Taiji Matsue has photographed the surfaces of the earth around the world—mountains, deserts, forests, cities—looking down from a great distance. This exhibition is comprised of about fifty, primarily recent...More »

During his lifetime as a photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki has remarkably produced more than 400 photography books. This oeuvre, unmatched anywhere in the world, is a manifestation of Araki’s belief that the...More »

The shadow of a small person stands still on the horizon line. A person walks on a roof. A leaf floats on water and light glistens from it. The place in Japan closest to space, Mt. Fuji — what’s visible...More »

Mt. Fuji is a unique mountain that has long attracted the reverence of the Japanese people. They look up at its graceful lines, sometimes as an object of religious veneration, at others, as a symbol of...More »

Yasuo Higa is not only one of the most renowned photographers in Okinawa, but he is also famous for his significant contribution to the field of ethnography. After the B-52 crash at Kadena Air Base in...More »

The subject exhibition, with entirely new works, has been named “Untitled”. As in the title, by excluding stories and keywords, through the works alone Kimura attempts a more practical expression of her...More »